Maggie's Farm

It seems that the mainstream media is missing the point again, as usual. The link above to Sisu and the posts about the Sarah Palin/ Fred Thompson friendship is very encouraging. The MS media were just congratulating themselves about 'killing Sarah dead' with their stream of inexcusable falsities and accusations, yet when she came to the lower 48 to campaign for Saxbe, she pulled big crowds and the man won, thus saving us grown-ups from a filibuster-proof Senate.

We haven't seen the last of Sarah, I predict. She is a powerful, charismatic leader, and with Fred Thompson's wise and clever guidance, she will only grow in stature over the next few years. What we're seeing in our politics today is unique, in my memory. For the first time, we are seeing the growth of real equal or almost equal partnerships between powerful and wise men and women in the political arena. There have been lots of women in politics, yes, but overwhelmingly they have been acolytes to more powerful men. I get the feeling that, with the appearance of genuinely powerful and effective women like Sarah Palin, political power is going to be more equally shared between the two sexes.

Of course, we'll still have fools like Pelosi, who is a bad political joke, and makes one think of a high school hall monitor, but until now, there have been only a few women politicians, like Margaret Chase Smith, who had genuine gravitas and whom one could respect, whether one agreed with her or not.. Sarah is going to have that -- already has, to some extent. And the future is brighter because she has it.

Already, my tattered hopes are reviving. A little anyway.

Marianne